It is a form of violent assault involving the act of throwing acid or a similarly corrosive substance on to someone's body with the intention to harm or kill, according to the UK charity Acid Survivors Trust International (Asti).
Using freedom of information requests, Asti obtained figures that show the police in England and Wales recorded 710 corrosive substance attacks in 2022, the most recent data available. This was up from 421 in 2021 during the Covid pandemic. They peaked at 949 in 2017 before new legislation targeting the sale and possession of corrosive substances was introduced.
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